Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
July 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    British Museum. VENICE. PLATEA (FRANCISCUS DE)—continued. restitutionu vtilissimu / a reuenendo in Christo patre fratre / Francisco de platea Bononien. ordi / nis minoru: diuiniqz verbi predicato / re eximio editum ; 06b; de sen. exco. c. vniuersitatis. 4 . . . vba qr vberet illu: Iz no noie ei / adest hic finis opis restitutionu pu- / tilis Reueredissimi i xpo pris fratrs / Fracsci de platea Bononiens ordinis / minor: cui impressio Venetijs extat / facta ducta & impensa Johanis co-/lonie agripines: ac Johanis mathen / de’ gherretzhem: gq vna fideliter circa / hoc se gerunt. Anno. M.ccce.lxxvij. / die. xxij Januarij; o7a: Tabula cartar sm ordinem ponedar: Et pmo Tabula tabule. Deinde totius libri . . . Finis; o7b: (blank); 08: (blank). Hain-Copinger-Reichling-Winship 13040; Proctor + 4312 A, B.M.C. V., 27. Not seen by Hain. Only known to Copinger from Holtrop and a book- seller’s catalogue. With Gilbert R. Redgrave’s bookplate, and a bibliographical note in his handwriting. The use of type G76B shews that the book cannot be dated in the Venetian manner. The firm of Johann of Cologne and Johann Manthen, of Gerresheim, near Diisseldorf, bought the business of Wendelin of Speier about 1473 or 1474. Both were men of business, with no special qualifications, either as printers or scholars. They were the most formidable of Jenson’s commercial rivals, with whom they virtually controlled the Venetian book-market. Francesco Piazza Platea, an Italian canonist, born at Bologna about 1390, died about 1460. 132. PLATEA (Franciscus de) OPUS RESTITUTIONUM. [Another copy], initials supplied in red, some larger in red and blue, rubricated, with the first and last blank leaf, modern vellum. £19 0 0 TAG? 133. MAMMOTRECTUS SUPER BIBLIAM. [By Jo. De Mar- chesios.] 4to (84 by 518 in.) , Gothic letter, double columns, 39 lines to the page, 228 leaves with signatures, wanting first and last (blanks) , spaces left for initials, which are supplied in red and blue, purple morocco, broad gold border on sides, gilt back and edges of boards, inside gold dentelles, g.e., with the armorial bookplate of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes inside. £22 00 Franz Renner of Heilbronn with Nicolaus of Frankfort: Venice 1476 _# Hain-Copinger 10557; Reichling Append. III., p. 98; Proctor 4168. Hain gives the date as 1477 in error. 134. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. COMPENDIUM THEOLOGIAE VERITATIS. Sm. 4to, printed in Gothic letter [B.M.C. V. plate XVIII* 79G], double columns, initial spaces filled in with red and violet pen work, rubricated, without page numerals, catchwords or signatures, 160 leaves (the first a blank) , old name and two old library stamps on the recto of p. 2, a few leaves at end slightly stained. Blue morocco roxburghe. £20 0 0 Christophorus Arnoldus: Venice, April 5, 1476 s*s Hain-Copinger *439; Proctor 4214; B.M.C. V., p. 205. The British © i Museum copy lacks the first blank leaf. Proctor only registers nine books from this press, of which this is the second.
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